I had myself diagnosed with CPS, and all but booked in to have a surgical release, before I realised that my worst affected fingers were my ring finger and my little pinkie!!

The symptoms struck me quite suddenly just before Christmas 2006, and I daresay the suddeness should have been a dead give away, but it took a while for my grey cells to click!

My daughter was visiting for Christmas, and as my dominant hand was affected, I couldn't even cut up my meal on Christmas Day. T'was a tad embarassing when she kept asking if she could cut my food for me, or even worse.....feed me!

Full feeling did return after about 3 weeks, and I didn't go to a doctor because I was so sure I had CTS that I didn't even get a course of steroids.

I daresay I was another that confused CPS with MS, and it's not that hard to do in this case, I can assure you of that.